Lahore University of Management Sciences POL 328 Politics of Pakistan Spring 2010 Instructor: Mohammad Waseem Office Hours: TBA Office: 217 ext 8056 Email: waseem@lums.edu.pk (N.B: this course outline is tentative; more sessions will be added before it is finally delivered) Course description The course is thematically arranged in the contextual framework of theory as well as practice. It seeks to highlight the two factors of structure and agency as represented respectively by state apparatuses and the political system, and political parties, ideologies and patterns of leadership. The course focuses on the overarching influence of the initial stages of state formation, legal and constitutional development, extra-parliamentary forces led by army and ethnic and religio-sectarian identities on politics of Pakistan. Course Objectives: 1. To expose students to various structural and operational aspects of politics in Pakistan; 2. To develop a comprehensive understanding of politics in the country in a conceptual framework beyond the traditional chronological approach; 3. To provide a perspective on the working of state institutions in the context of comparative politics. Grading: Attendance 15% Quiz tests 20% Midterm examination 25% Final examination 40%
Session 1: Introduction: Profile of the nation Victoria Schofield, Introducing Pakistan, in Victoria Schofield ed, Old Roads New Highways: Fifty Years of Pakistan, OUP 1997 Stephen P. Cohen, The Nation and the State of Pakistan, The Washington Quarterly, 25: 3, Summer 2002 Session 2: State formation: The early phase Ian Talbot, Pakistan: A Modern History, Hurst and Company, London, 1998 (Part II) Yunas Samad, A Nation in Turmoil: Nationalism and Ethnicity in Pakistan, 1937-1958, Sage Publications, New Delhi Chapter 5 Session 3: Constitutional and political issues: I Hamid Khan, Constitutional and Political History of Pakistan, OUP 2001, Chapter 36 Session 4: Constitutional and political issues: II Dieter Conrad, In Defence of the Continuity of Law, in Wolfgang Peter Zingel and Stephanie Zingel Ave Lallemant eds, Pakistan in the 1980s, Vol. I, Vanguard, Lahore, 1985 Katherine Adeney, Constitutional Centring: Nation Formation and Constitutional Federalism in India and Pakistan, Commonwealth and Comparative Politics, November 2002 Session 5: Legislature Mushtaq Ahmad, Government and Politics in Pakistan, Space Publishers Karachi, 1970 Chapters 6, 7, 17 PILDAT, First 2 Years of the National Assembly of Pakistan: November 16 2002- November 15 2004, Pakistan Institute of Legislative Development and Transparency (PILDAT), Lahore 2004 Session 6: Military and Politics Ishtiaq Hossain, Pakistan s October 1999 Military Coup: Its causes and Consequences, Asian Journal of Political Science, Vol. 8, No. 2, December 2000 Habib Zafarullah and Muhammad Yeahia Akhter, Military Rule, Civilianization and Electoral Corruption: Pakistan and Bangladesh in Perspective, Asian Studies Review, Vol. 25, no. 1, March 2001
Stephen Cohen, The Pakistan Army, OUP 1998 Epilogue Ian Talbot, Does the Army Shape Pakistan s Foreign Policy, in Christophe Jafferlot ed, Pakistan: Nationalism without a Nation, Manohar Publishers, New Delhi, 2002 Session 7: Political parties Rafiq Afzal, Political Parties in Pakistan, I, II, III, Institute of Historical and Cultural Studies, Islamabad, 1998-2000 (Selective chapters) Subrata K. Mitra, Mike Enskat and Clemens Spies eds, Political Parties in South Asia, Praeger, 2004 Chapters 6, 7, 8 Session 8: Judiciary Paula Newberg, As if to Frame a Picture: Courts and Politics, in Rasul Bukhsh Rais ed, State, Society and Democratic Change in Pakistan, OUP, Karachi 1997 Nasim Hasan Shah, Judiciary in Pakistan: A Quest for Independence, in Craig Baxter and Charles Kennedy eds, Pakistan 1997, Westview Press, Boulder 1998 Session 9: Patterns of governance Mushahid Hussain and Akmal Hussain, Pakistan: Problems of Governance, Vanguard, 1993, Chapter 2 Session 10: Midterm Examination Session 11: Democracy and Civil Society Mustafa Kamal Pasha, The Hyper-Extended State: Civil Society and Democracy, in Rasul Bukhsh Rais ed, State, Society and Democratic Change in Pakistan, OUP 1997 A. Whaites, The State and Civil Society in Pakistan, Contemporary South Asia, Vol. 4, No.3 1995 Holly Sims, Democratization and the Revitalization of Civil Society, in Rasul Bukhsh Rais ed, State, Society and Democratic Change in Pakistan, OUP 1997 Session 12: Patterns of Leadership K. B. Sayeed, Political Leadership and Institution Building Under Jinnah, Ayub and Bhutto, in L. Ziring, R. Braibanti and Howard Wriggins eds, Pakistan: The Long View, Longman, Durban, 1977 Ian Talbot, General Pervez Musharraf: Saviour or Destroyer of Pakistan s Democrcay, Contemporary South Asia, Vol. 11, No. 3, 2002
Session 13: Islamic statehood Ishtiaq Ahmed, The Concept of an Islamic State: An Analysis of the Ideological Controversy in Pakistan, University of Stockholm, 1985 Chapter 2 Munir D. Ahmed, Conflicting Definitions of the Islamic State in Pakistan, in W. P. Zingel and Stephanie Ave Lallemant Zingel eds, Pakistan in the 80s, Vanguard, 1985 Session 14: Islamic movements Vali Nasr, Organisation in Islamic Movements, in Charles H. Kennedy and Rasul Bakhsh Rais eds, Pakistan 1995, Westview Press, 1995 Mohammad Waseem, Political Sources of Islamic Militancy in Pakistan, in Ian Talbot ed, The Deadly Embrace: Religion, Politics and Violence in India and Pakistan 1947-2002, OUP 2007 Session 15: National integration I: The phenomenon of ethnic movements Yunas Samad, In and Out of Power but not Down and Out: Mahajir Identity Politics, in Christophe Jafferlot ed, Pakistan: Nationalism without a Nation, Manohar Publishers, New Delhi, 2002 Feroz Ahmed, Ethnicity and Politics in Pakistan, OUP 1999, Chapter 4 Adeel Khan, Baluch Ethnic Nationalism in Pakistan: From Guerrilla War to Nowhere?, Asian Ethnicity, Vol. 4, No. 2, June 2003 Session 16: National integration II: A pluralist framework Mohammad Waseem, Democracy and Pluralism in Pakistan, in John Rex and Gurharpal Singh eds, Governing Multicultural Societies, Basingstoke, Ashgate 2004 Session 17: Terrorism and Anti-terrorism Robert Wirsing, Pakistan s Transformation: The Limits of Extreme Makeover in US Counter-terrorism Strategy, Paper for the annual LUMS conference, March-April 2005 Hassan Abbas, Pakistan s Drift into Extremism: Allah, the Army, and America s War on Terror, NewDelhi: Pentagon Press, 2005 Charles H. Kennedy, The Creation and Development of Pakistan s Anti-terrorism Regime, 1997-2002 in Satu P. Limaye, Mohan Malik and Robert G. Wirsing, Religious Radicalism and Security in South Asia, Honolulu, Hawaii: Asia Pacific Center for Security Studies, 2004
Session 18: Human rights HRCP, State of Human Rights in 2005, Lahore, 2006 Session 19: Religious Minorities Mohammad Waseem, Religious Minorities, in Mohammad Waseem ed, Electoral Reform in Pakistan, Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, Islamabad, 2002 Session 20: Pakistan in the 21 st Century Charles Kennedy, Pakistan 2005: Running Very Fast to Stay in the Same Place, Asian Survey, Vol. 45, No. 1, January 2005 Husain Haqqani, Pakistan: Between Mosque and Military, Vanguard Books, Lahore 2005